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was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a certificate of proficiency from the de- partment of music in 1888 and the degree of Baclielor of JIusic in 1897, He became professor of modern languages in the New York military academy. Besides many hymns, sonatas, noc- turnes, and rondos, he composed: Juhilatu Dfo for chorus and solos (1888); Kyrie EUison (lUii'i); Psalm CXVII. for chorus and solos (1891); can- tata, The Fountain of Lirimj Waters, for chorus, solos and orchestra (1897); and a series of glees (1898) including Ilats Off! The Flag is Passing Bij. dedicated to and composed for the cadets of the New York military academy.

FIELD, Eugene, poet, was born in St. Louis, Mo., .Sept. 3, 18.50; son of Roswell Martin and Frances (Reed) Field, both natives of Windham count}', Vt. His mother died in 1856 and he was brought up bj- his cousin. Miss Mary Field French of Amherst, Mass. In 1865 he entered the pri- vate school of the Rev. James Tufts, Mon- son, Mass., and matric- ulated at Williams college in 1868, but left on the death of his father in 1869 to I company his guar- luin. Prof. John Wil- y // ham Burgess, to Gales- burg, 111., where he

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attended Knox col- lege for two j-ears. He afterward stud- ied for one year at the University of Missouri. In 1872 he visited southern Europe, and in May, 187.3, he became a reporter on the St. Louis Erening Journal. He was married in Octo- ber, 1873, to Julia Sutherland Comstock of St. Joseph, Mo. He was a city editor of the St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette, 1875-76; editorial writer on the St. Louis Morning Journal and the St. Louis Times- Journal, 1876-80; managing editor of the Kansas City Times, 1880-81; managing editor of the Den- ver Tribune, 1881-83; and special writer on the Chicago Record from 1883 until his death. He wrote and published his first bit of verse in 1879; it was entitled " Christian Treasures." Ten years later he began suddenly to write verse fre- quently, meanwhile having written many short stories and tales. In 1889 ill health compelled him to visit Europe and he spent fourteen months in England, Germany, Holland and Belgium. Af- ter his death his daughter, JIary French Field, gave readings from his poems in many of the prin- cipal cities in the United States. The foUoviing is a list of his published writings Denver Trihune Primer (1882); TJte Model Primer (1882); Culture's

Garland (1887); Little Book of Western Verse (1889); Little Book of Profitable Tales (1889); Echoes from the /Sabine Farm (1891); With Trumpet and Drum (1892); Second Book of Verse (1892); Holy Cross and Other Tales (1893); Dihdin's Ghost (1893); First Editions of American Authors (1893); Facts, Confessions and Observettions (1894); Love iSonys of Children (1894); Tribute to the Meynory of Ruth C. Gray (1894); Love Affairs of a Biblio- maniac (1896); The House (1896); Songs and Other Verse (1896); Second Book of Tales (1896); Auto- Analysis (1896); Field Floicers, Eugene Field Mon- ument Souvenir (1897); and Lullaby Land {1897). He died at Buena Park, Chicago, 111., Nov. 4, 1895.

FIELD, Henry Martyn, educator, was born in Brighton, Mass.. Oct. 3, 1837. He was grad- uated at Harvard in 1859 and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, in 1863. He was acting assistant surgeon in the volunteer army, 1862-63, and practised medicine in New York city, 1864-67, and at Newton, Mass., 1867-72. He was assistant professor of materia medica in Dartmouth college, 1870-71; professor, 1871-87; and was elected professor of thera- peutics in 1887. He received an honorary M.D. degree from Dartmouth in 1881. He publislied -.4 Mrmorirtl of Dr. Peaslee (1879), and Evacnant MedinitioH (1888).

FIELD, Henry Martyn, editor and author, was born in Stockbridge, Mass.. April 3, 1822; son of the Rev. David Dudley and Submit (Dickinson) Field, and grandson of Captain Timothy Field and of Captain Noah Dickinson, officers in the American Revolution. He was graduated at Williams in 1838, studied theology and was in- stalled pastor of the Third Presliyterian Church, St. Louis. Mo., in 1842. Resigning in 1847, he spent over a year in Exirope and was in Paris at the Revolution in 1848, and stood in front of the Tuileries when it was being sacked by the mob. Returning to America he was settled over the Congregational church in West Springfield, Mass., 1851 to 1854, when he removed to New York, where he had purchased half of 77i(- Evan- gelist and afterward purcliased the other half, becoming sole projirietor and editor. He trav- elled much abroad and wrote many books, the first of which was "The Irish Confederates, a History of the Rebellion of 1798."' that appeared in 1851, and the next. "Summer Pictures from Copen- hagen to Venice," in which he described a visit to Europe in 1858. In 1875-76 he made a journey round the world, which was the subject of two volumes, " From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn," and "From Egypt to Japan." In the autumn of 1881 he went abroad again, and in the following spring made a second visit to Egypt, and crossed the Desert to Mount Sinai, living in tents and riding on camels, and re-